CVE-2005-0553: Microsoft Ie

Medium severity, CVSS 5.1. EPSS: 50.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Race condition in the memory management routines in the DHTML object processor in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5, and 6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malicious web page or HTML e-mail, aka "DHTML Object Memory Corruption Vulnerability".

Affected products

• Microsoft Ie: version 6.0 only
• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 5.01 only; version 5.5 only; version 6.0 only

Published 2005-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.